Beach erosion has some Salisbury residents living on the edge

A sand dune project aiming to protect beachfront homes was destroyed in a single storm.
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[@ravenousvisages]

I have a "solution" to the "problem". Stop encroaching on public beaches with your private vacation investments. There's a house moving company that can lift your house and move it.

[@Joe-ng5ez]

Help the homeless not the rich

[@Ivehadenuff]

I feel badly for families that have been there for decades, but not for newly built houses and new residents. They knew what was coming.

[@dianeseverin2529]

I worked with someone (not from around here) who bought a condo at Salisbury and told me, “I’ve always wanted to live at the beach.” My thought was, “In the winter? Are you crazy?”

[@dianeseverin2529]

My parents bought a cottage streetside in the area of the buildings where your reporter is standing. In the 60s, a lot of that beach in front of those houses was covered by sand dunes anchored by sea grass and other vegetation. I remember walking through those dunes and hearing and seeing crickets. One year, the homeowner next to us decided he wanted to see the ocean from his house, so he hired a bulldozer to come in and remove the dune, thus contributing to the erosion. During the Blizzard of ‘78, the ocean traveled right between the houses and dug a hole under my parents’ small cottage, causing the back end of the house to fall into the hole. The dune would have prevented that from happening, IMO. I’m guessing that nearby homeowners had their dunes removed during that era as well. I haven’t been in that area for some time, but from your video, I can see that the simple summer cottages I knew are now upscale year round homes. Those homeowners have a lot more to lose today. I learned to respect what the ocean could do in the winter. I’d treat living at the beach as strictly a summer time thing.

[@thomasmoroney1079]

I feel bad for everyone affected but if you didn’t see it coming you’re delusional

[@VegasVaron]

What’s the rationale for the public to pay for these home owners to live on the beachfront?

[@AlmostReady504]

Beachfront will one day become Beach.

[@A3Kr0n]

Seeing all those houses crowding that beautiful beach makes me hope everyone gives up and leaves it alone.

[@Ritchie1]

People living on the other side of the road are looking forward to ocean front living

[@AM-bl2cs]

my heart bleeds for the multi millionaires trying to stop the tide

[@user-py8iw4ny9x]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 move. Who lied to you guys and said this was going to work?

[@RichRich1955]

One of those people claim the sand should have lasted 3 years before doing it again

[@tasha7726]

That's a total loss. They sure as heck can't sell those houses.

[@KelliAnnWinkler]

Maybe the government will bail them out. .

[@JustMe-gs9xi]

They are actually trying to sell them though priced from $750 - 2.5 million, SO SLeazy!

[@JustMe-gs9xi]

@@KelliAnnWinkler they prob would,,, but they wouldn't get the 2 Million they actually think those places are worth,,,, LOL,,, i grew up in Mass...... Spoiled Crybabies. Can't move on, give that beach back to the people.

[@KelliAnnWinkler]

In the words of one of our greatest philosophers...."Stupid is as stupid does". Some people are just resistant to change.

[@tonyvw3064]

😂 humans trying to fight the mother nature 🤷🏽

[@dreddykrugernew]

In the UK they tried this also, what happened is it took all the sand into the sea but it remained just offshore and created a natural breakwater so it worked in a fashion. Down the east coast of England where I live there is very little help for most of the coast and people put out huge rocks just at the shore to try and do something to break the waves before they hit...

[@sillypeople4873]

Wah-wah... Probably shouldn't build so close to the ocean.

[@drivebyquipper]

Beach renourishment never works.

[@davidthompson6636]

“We have deserts in America. We just don’t live in them, STUPID! MOVE!!!” Sam Kinison Respect the Earth . It’s not Uranus (which you are showing to the whole world)

[@ShaighJosephson]

No tax dollars should be used to protect those homes... All those houses are built on a sand bar and the owners all knowingly took that risk out of vanity to have a beachfront home... Tax payer money should not be used to bail out these homeowners from the risk they knowingly took in puchasing these homes... 💥

[@rosemariebredahl9519]

Add to (mitigatable) side-effects of beach "renourishment": Shark attacks via 1) direct access channels (esp to areas between "sandbars"), and 2) bait-fish populations created near recent dredging

[@landbaron4086]

Coastal Beaches are the most unstable real estate in America, you can see that on geological maps over time. If they want to pay for it, carry on. But would be wrong to keep dumping tax dollars in front of their million dollar homes.

[@colemanmoorecompany]

2, 4, 8 ton rock bags would help dissipate wave energy and lock up rock. 1,000,000+ Kyowa rock bags installed for: critical infrastructure, bridges, beaches, roadways, harbors, pipelines, offshore, levee defense, emergency repairs, and limited access locations.

[@encinobalboa]

They have a problem and it's not mine. They need to band together and pay for their own fix.

[@RichRich1955]

They did pay

[@Primo_extracts]

Those houses have not been there for generations. Foolishness.

[@NemoStrong]

Build a wall, that's not made of sand? The fact is, without a wall, the homes will eventually be under water. Lots of communities in Antiquity, had the same problem, some of those cities, still exist in Greece and Italy today; Build a wall or move.

[@mikes-wv3em]

sucks to be rich and ignorant. nothing of value was lost.

[@quesadilla79]

😂rich folks arriving at socialism, not in my backyard turning into no backyard

[@vincenttiene]

Socialism is a word that politicians, especially Republicans, love to use to deny help/benefits to the poor. Are you aware that many of them voted for and received PPP loan forgiveness for their businesses? Do you know that we have been bailing out big banks and wall street for years?

[@jujube8067]

Sand? It was the sand that washed away. Bad idea. Maybe huge rocks, but sand?

[@Frosty294492]

You really have to be a denier to live there.

[@Bruno_Felipe]

Who could say that not listening the scientists that at least 30 years alerting about how the climate changes would affect ours llives would bring real consequences.

[@renegades5502]

Big ass rocks that will slow it down big time

[@Attalla2023]

I love these stories people building on the beach. Side of s moutain and than omg the beach is washing away. Dah

[@ronaldschmelzle7636]

Well stop putting your homes that close to the water easy fix

[@JerseyFerdinand]

Maybe people should stop wanting to live right on the edge. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@LtShahdirty]

Same home owners say "no such thing as global warming" lmao😅 they never took science glass? Water is the harshest thing on this planet..

[@user-py8iw4ny9x]

There is no such thing as global warming. This is natural erosion.

[@KelliAnnWinkler]

What's ironic is that the tides have been much higher over time. Oceans rise and fall. Will we ever learn.

[@adamstierle1787]

why should taxpayers pay or this ?

[@vivalaleta]

Try gabions!

[@Fush1234]

Tough luck. Buyer beware. No sympatrhy

[@feliciashea3506]

Tough shit you shouldn't have built houses in places where they shouldn't be

[@edwardprice140]

That's in the bible "Don't be a fool and build on sand."

[@edwardprice140]

The first building code----In Matthew 7, Jesus said everyone who hears his words and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. Then he went on to say everyone who hears his words and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand (Matthew 7:24-26).

[@trappersurge6364]

That sums it up nicely

[@JustMe-gs9xi]

Great one,, Yes,, Wise People Built Houses in stable soil, not sand. (and also Native Americans built their villages near rivers and streams,,, but not on the banks. Here in Mass they lived in the cover of Woods,,, but had access to the fishing and fresh water.

[@kithill2811]

If they'd fight to stop the damming of creeks and rivers (the oxymoron "flood control") then this wouldn't happen. Where do they think natural sand comes from?

[@encinobalboa]

Jetty stops flow of sand. Homes to the south of Merrimack have plenty of sand while homes to the north are sand starved. There is no easy fix.

[@joevara1349]

It's the beginning of the end. High tide tells you the future of area is gone. Build the wall or move.spend Millions

[@scottysteadman5063]

Sell to the next sucker! Race to the bottom!!

[@MrFgarcia140]

It’s call global warming

[@Theguys1]

Too bad folks…boo hoo.

[@AlmostReady504]

Jealous Gupta

[@swedesam]

$600,000 just went *POOF*

[@justeatingchipsandwatching]

Aaaahaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@Brap-pl2me]

lol. They should have gone to Sunday School. At like 7 years old I knew that “the foolish man built his house upon the sand.”

[@LiberalsAreMentallyIll]

must be the global warming hoax🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thomasmoroney1079]

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